Help needed.

[DayleW]

I've tried removing sticks of RAM and it doesn't seem to make any difference. When it crashes it does not BSOD, rather just freezes up or is unable to run applications, or shut down properly. A similar thing happens in ubuntu where applications fail to load again more often when the computer is cold. I'll have to ask around to see if I can borrow a different PSU off a friend.

 

[stueng]

oh so it doenst actually reboot/BSOD

if it rebooted suddenly I would say PSU, but from what you have described its probably not this

BSOD could be HDD or RAM.. so probably not HDD

programs failing to open etc could be RAM or CPU